From The CIA Iran Coup To Trump’s War: It Was Always About Oil
Fariba Amini Informed Comment In the 1975 film Three Days of the Condor, the late Robert Redford played Joe Turner, a disenchanted CIA field officer who was being chased by…
‘Making a Killing, Literally and Figuratively’: Big Oil Profits Set to Double Amid Deadly Heat
“Big Oil’s greed is incompatible with a livable planet and unless governments rein it in, they will make a mockery of international climate targets,” said one Oxfam campaigner. Brett Wilkins…
China’s Oil Strategy And What The West Leaves Out
Arnie Saiki, Decolonize Accounting. There has been an abundance of information around China’s oil strategy of recent, some of it sensible, most of it unremarkably a part of the western…
Hormuz, Mandeb, Black Sea: Wars and Diesel Chokepoints Spike World Inflation
Juan Cole Informed Comment The Iran War will erode the purchasing power of American consumers this summer, according to CNBC, especially because of high diesel prices. That projection helps explain…
Former CIA Analyst: Trump’s Iran Deal Was a Surrender—Now Washington Wants to Rewrite It
Joshua Scheer As Washington celebrates America’s 250th anniversary, former CIA analyst Larry Johnson argues that the real story is unfolding thousands of miles away in the Persian Gulf. In this…
How the Iran War Fuel Crisis Is Reshaping the Pacific
Hugo Temby, Australian National University and Joel Nilon, Australian National University for The Conversation The past five years have not been easy for the people of the Pacific. COVID restrictions…
Trump Admin Uses Iran War Oil Shock to Push Drilling in Alaskan Wilderness
By Michael Arria This article was originally published by Truthout The five-year plan is expected to cause 4,000 additional oil spills and the destruction of fragile ecosystems. The Trump administration…
This Was the Plan: UAE Exit From OPEC Marks Corporate Capture of Global Oil: As Conflict Destabilizes The Region, The Collapse Of Collective Control Hands Unprecedented Leverage To U.S. Power And Energy Giants
ScheerPost Staff The war on Iran isn’t just redrawing battle lines—it’s ripping apart the architecture of global energy itself. In a stunning move, the United Arab Emirates has announced it…
Event With Links to Oil Industry Teaches Judges “Healthy Skepticism” of Climate Science
Abrahm Lustgarten for Propublica For many months, conservative lawmakers and political operatives have been targeting the scientists and lawyers behind the Climate Judiciary Project, a program meant to educate the…
Oil, Empire, and the Price of War: How Energy Became the Ultimate Weapon
Joshua Scheer This war isn’t just being fought with missiles—it’s being waged through oil markets, currencies, and corporate balance sheets. And while the world watches bombs fall, something quieter—and far…
War Chokes the Food Chain: Hormuz Crisis Threatens Global Hunger Shock
UN officials warn that the U.S.–Iran conflict and the shutdown of the Strait of Hormuz are triggering a fertilizer collapse that could ripple into food shortages, soaring prices, and mass…
Big Oil Cashed In While War Sent Prices Soaring
ScheerPost Staff It’s All About The Oil As ordinary people paid more at the pump, fossil fuel executives were cashing out. A new analysis reported by The Wall Street Journal…
Burning Oil, Narrow Waters: The Tanker Strike That Brings Gulf War Danger to the Surface
ScheerPost Staff The fire on the Kuwaiti supertanker Al-Salmi off Dubai is more than another war headline—it is the kind of event that turns elite military brinkmanship into immediate global…
The Strait, the Dollar and the Limits of Empire
Joshua Scheer What is unfolding around Iran is not simply another regional war—it is the latest violent convulsion of an empire trying to preserve a crumbling order through force. Washington’s…